What does life give me in the end but sorrow? What do love's good and evil send but sorrow? I've only seen one true companion - pain And I have known… - Hafez

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What does life give me in the end but sorrow?
What do love's good and evil send but sorrow?
I've only seen one true companion - pain
And I have known no faithful friend but sorrow

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About Hafez

Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Shīrāzī (known by his pen name Hafez or Hāfiz) (1325/26–1389/90) was a Persian mystic poet.

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Pen Names: حافظ
Native Name: خواجه شمس‌الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی
Alternative Names: of Shiraz Šams-al-Din Moḥammad Anacreon of Persia Khāja Shamsu Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Shīrāzī Shamsoddin Mohammad Hafez-e Shirazi Ḥāfeẓ Moḥammed Shams od-Dīn Ḥafeẓ Ḥāfiẓ Ḥāfiẓ Shīrāzī Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī Shams-ud-Din Mohammed Moḥammed Šams al-Dīn Ḥafeẓ Hafiz Khafiz Hafis Haafiz Häfiz
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I WISH I COULD SPEAK LIKE MUSIC I wish I could speak like music. I wish I could put the swaying splendor
Of the fields into words So that you could hold Truth
Against your body
And dance. I am trying the best I can
With this crude brush, the tongue, To cover you with light. I wish I could speak like divine music. I want to give you the sublime rhythms
Of this earth and the sky’s limbs As they joyously spin and surrender,
Surrender
Against God’s luminous breath. Hafiz wants you to hold me
Against your precious
Body And dance,
Dance.

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